Over the Line (A Crime Club Selection) [Man About a Dog]

191 pp. "The story concerns a doctor, his lovely but unfaithful wife, and the amiable, unfortunate young man doomed by the doctor to die for his indiscretions. The doctor's plan was watertight. He literally kept his victim on a chain until he considered it safe to carry out liquidation--again quite literally. That's where the feeling of Poe comes in--in the mounting horror of the condemned lover as he gradually becomes aware of his fate."--jacket. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Alec Coppel (17 September 1907 – 22 January 1972) was an Australian-born screenwriter, novelist and playwright. He spent the majority of his career in London and Hollywood, specialising in light thrillers, mysteries and sex comedies. He is best known for the films Vertigo (1958), The Captain's Paradise (1953), Mr Denning Drives North (1951) and Obsession (1949), and the plays I Killed the Count and The Gazebo."--Wikipedia